The Civil War real to reel

"The Civil War," Robert Penn Warren wrote, "is, for the American imagination, the great single event of our history. Without too much wrenching, it may, in fact, be said to be American history." In his splendid Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War, Gary W. Gallagher, one of America's premier Civil War historians, analyzes how and...